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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 18. 1922
No. 29
SB
S
OF FACULTY
ARE IN WHO’S WHO
^HIEVEMENTS ARE
of Macon, wvin years; life truatee of
Georgilk School for the Deaf.
. William Edmund Farrar, dean,
UAW DIMWNI7IHV M '™ r Univerelty; educator; A. B.
HUl? IVfiVvUlllMUl/1 graduate, Richmond College; M.A.,
, ■ Bethel College; has held various pro-
feaaorahipa; was elected president of
Finw, Flippin, Holder, Jacobo, Bethel in 1918, which position he de-
Spnrks and McGinty Arc
New Faces.
Mercer University Members
Recognised in America's
Professional World.
From Macon News.
That Macon and Mercer University
are becoming nationally known rev-
ion of culture and education is
proved in the latest edition of Who’*
Who in America, this city gaining
twelve members over the half a dosen
two ears ago. Of the eighteen ac
credited to Macon, twelve are mem
bers of the Mercer University fac
ulty. V
This authority of. the prominent
people of America is id worked out
that one must gain some national
recognition and etand out in the pro
fessional or business world. Marquis
A Company, publishers, require each
admission to fully qualify and no
amount of money or intercession on
tbs part of friends may gain entrance.
There are listed 885 men of such rec
ognition in Georgia while .in the en
tire Country there are only about
24,000. ,
Each Who’s Who member must be
qualified from some business or pro
fession. There are only ‘two such
qualified as newspaper men in Geor
gin, Macon claiming one of them in
Qeorge H. Sparks, well known news
paper man in Georgia, Texas, New
York and Washington, D. C., and now
publicity director of Mercer Univer
sity and instructor of Journalism. He
is also the youngest of the number.
The list of Macon members are
Dean W. E. Farrar, educator; Judge
W. H. Felton, capitalist; ex-Governor
Nat E. Harris, public official;. Walter
A. Harris, general of National Guard;
Peyton Jacobs, educator; John T.-Boi-
feuillet, public offeial; Bishop W. N
Ainsworth, church official; Dr. Rufus
W. Weaver, theologian; Francis Hol
der, educator; Dr. Claudius McGinty,
theologian; A. H. Newman, historian
Dr, Charles Bray Williams, educator;
Georg* M. Sparks, newspaper man;
Warren Grice, lawyer; Dr. P. S. Flip-
pin, educator; Dr. A. P. Montague,
educator; Dr. W. F. Quillian, college
president.
John T. Roifeuillet
That . John Theodore Boifeuillet,
railroad commissioner, is an A.B. and
a M.A. graduate of Mercer; editor,
Macon News, 1884-0; managing edi
tor, Macon Telegraph, 1808-93, and
dined to Come to Mercer as dean.
„ Judge William Rpmilton Felton,
student, Mercer and . University of
Virginia; member, Georgia House of
^Representatives; judge, Superior
Court, Macon Circuit; lecturer, Mer-
cCr Law School since 1001; member,
Bibb Count Board of Education 16
years; president public utilities, cor
porations.
Dr. Percy Scott Flippin, professor
of History oat Mercer; holds an A.B.
degree from Richmond College and a
Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins; various
professorships; lecturer; managing
editor, Georgia ‘’Historical Quarterly;
author, works dealing with the his
tory of Virginia.
Warreh Grice, member Georgia
House of Representatives; State At
torney General 1^014-15; professor,
lecturer and trustee, Mercer Univer
sity; member,. American, Georgia and
Macon Bar Associations; Georgia
‘Historical Society. ; ' ...
Dr. Francis Jerome Holder, B. S.,
National. Normal University, Leba
non, O.; graduate, Massey’s Business
College, Jacksonville; M. A., Yale
University; manager; King’s Business
College, Raleigh, N. C.; principal,
School' of Commerce, University of
Wyoming; established School of Com
merce^ Mercey University, '4918; ' and
since dean and head of department of
mathematics of same; member Amer
ican Mathematical and other national
societies,' *
Prof.. Peyton Jacob, .dean, School of
Education, Mercer; A,B., Mississippi
College, 1905; A. B., 1900, various
professorships;* member Mississippi
Textbook pommission (1910); Ameri
can Sociological Society and others.
Dr. Claudius Lamar McGinty, dean
Of School of Christianity, Mercer;
A, B., M^rcejvf»l*i\Th.R/; Th.M., Th
D., Southern Baptist theological Sem
inary; minister; author, Quakerism
Its Rise, Content and Tendencies.
PRESIDENT WEAVER
The man who is to soon be the head
of the largest university in the
. "** ' Southeast, V
MANY ARE ADDED
MERCER FACULTY
Dr. A. P. Montague
Dr. Andrew Philip Montague, pro
fessor, Latin and Public Speaking,
Mercer; A.B., LL.D., University of
Virginia; A.M., George Washington
University; Ph.D., ibid.; LL..D., Rich
mond College; Ph.D;, George Wash
ington University; various professor
ships; president Furman University;
president Howard College; president
Columbia College; president Florida
Education Association; author. Se
lected Letters of Cicero; Selected
Letters of Pliny;
Dr. Albert Henry Newman, profes
sor of Church History,'Mercer Uni
versity; graduate Rochester Theolog
assistant editor, ibid.; 1906-7; mem- ical Seminary; A.B., Mercer; gradu-
ber, House of Representatives of ate student Southern Baptist __
Georgia, 1890-8 (speaker pro tern logical Seminary; LL.D., Southwest
1898-8) and clerk of same 1898-1917; em Baptist University; various pro-
attached American Embassy at Lon-
den 1915-16; private secretory to
United States Senator A. O.
fessorships; dean, Southwestern The-
(Continued on page eight): <■
Now Nearly Four Times As
Large As Five Years Ago.
LAW SCHOOL ADDS
TOLARGE FACULTY
Leading Jurists Among Honored
. Graduates.
SCOUT EXECUTIVES
NOW IN TRAINING
School Representing Southeast
ern States in Session at
Mercer.
The teaching staff of Mercer Uni
versity for the year 1922-23 includes
fifty-five professors and instructors,
of-whom ten are connected with the
Law School, leaving forty-.five teach
ing in the college' and in the Schools
of Theology,- Education, Journalism
and Commerce. Should the present
Legislature enact a law requiring two
years of college work of a|l-registered
pharmacists, the School of Pharmacy
will be ■ reorganised and the faculty
further increased. Five years ago the
faculty of Mercer University consist;
ed of a- teaching force of seventeen,
six of whom were connected with the
Law Schdol. ... -
Each year there have been added
to the faculty men of scholarship and
Chriptian character. Every professor
who i* the head of a department in
The School of Law established
1876 was not an integral part
Mercer University, since the mem
bers of the faculty were not paid by
the institution a regular salary. The
professors in the Lew School received
the tuition paid by the students and
divided this income- among them
selves. The classes were taught at
night and only one year of instruc
tion was given.
During the last few years there
has been a marked advance made in
the requirements for legal education.
The Association of American Law
Schools defines the standards, in this
particular fiejd. There are but live
institutions in the South which today
are meeting these requirements. The
trustees of Mercer University have
decided that this institution shall be
the sixtfi among the law schools of
’the South to measure up in every
particular to the standards set by
Yale, Harvard, Cornell and other
universities. ■ ■
Beginning \tT 1921 all candidates
for the law degree were tequired to
engage in resident study for a period
of three years. Beginning with 1922
the - instruction will be given in the
day, while three new professors have
been • added who will devote all of
their time t othe giving of instruc
tion. ’ ■
The School of Law in Mercer Uni
versity huH had an honorable history
and numbers among its graduates
many of the leading jurists of this
and other states. It has been gener
ally agreed that our L* w School has
been the best in the state, and this
judgment has been reached primarily
because Of the excellent instruction
given by the members of the Macon
Bar who have composed its faculty.
It is a source of gratification that
every one of these men will retain
his connection’ with the School of Law
and will-teach the subjects which they
have taught so acceptably for many
„ , .. .. .. • 11 ■ . years. Judge W. H. Felton, Jr.; is
Mercer . University either has an V ..., ", .. . , ,,
dean, while the other members of the
earned doctor’s degree or he is en
gaged in securing such a degree.
There haa been a iqarked advance
made in the requirements for en
trance and for graduation. The first
two years of college work offer little
variety to the student; since during
this period he is taking the subjects
and the courses of study required by
everyone who is. seeking; a college
degree.. .
The increase in the teaching force
has been necessitated by the principle
which has -guided- the present admin
istration in the development of the
curriculpm.j>f Mercer University. This
institution does not exist for itself.
Its mission is to provide every stu
dent with the best education possible
arid to give him instruction in those
courses of study which he will fine) to
be of practical value in later life. Th<
t two yeara of college Woikpffdrd
ThtMiTiPI—an 'innnrti’" lt r^* r ”* lfi "lf
faculty now living in Macon are
Judge Malcolm D. Jones, Former At
torney-General Warren Grice, O. A.
Park, formerly president of the Geor
gia Bar Association, J- R. L. Smith,
and Harry S. Strozier.
Three new class rooms arc being
fitted up for the School of Law. while
this, year three thousand volumes will
be added to (he law'library. Arrange
ment* have been made by which stu
dents who desire to take the A.B. a
LL'.B. degrees may complej^tneir
Work within a period of^rffTyears:
Further information may be se
cured by writing^to H.’ S.. Strozier,
Secretary of Jbe Law School; Macon,
Georgia.
a (election from a wide range of sub
jects. The providing of many courses
of study made in the interest of the
student is the reason tor the enlarge
ment of the University faculty.
In the college and in the different
schools which make up the Univer
sity, three hundred and eleven sub
jects are now being taught. Every
subject given possesses practical value
for some group of students. Mercer
University is undertaking to furnish
the kind of education which any
young man will need; whatever may
be his life work or profession.
There have been added, nine new
men to the faculty, while others will
probably be secured by the opening
of-the fell session. j
•• Dr. Clement T. Goods, AJL, gradu
ate of Wake oFrsst College and M.A.J
of Harvard University, took his Ph.D.
degree at Cornell University two
years ago. Ha is the; author of a
book on “The Poetry of Byron." He
use: “What's the hardest thing
in the world?” ,
Elrod: ' “Trying to pick up ft pin
with a boxing glove op.”
Muse: “You are wrong; the hard
est thing in the world is a one-armed
man- trying to wind his wrist watch,'
By J: B. Canton
Mercer University and the National
Boy Scout Council are holding -a
Scout Executive Training School on
the Mercer campus from August 14
to 25. -The purpose of this school is
to- train young men so that they can
qualify to hold positions in communi
ties as' Scout Executives.
This training school js the^firat of
its kind to be held in the Southern
States. It is intended Ufr pien in the
Sixth Scout. Region,/which includes
the following states/. Georgia, Florid
da, North Carolina /and South Caro
lina.' Men from six states' an;
attending .the school.
This school is held to satisfy the
demand for Scout Executives. Inter
est and enthusiusm in Scouting has
increased so rapidly that it haa been
found difficult to supply the demand
for leaders.
Besides lectures and practical ac
tivities, a regular course in scouting
will be given. Among' the subjects
offered are Scoutcraft, Seminar, Com
munity Boy Leadership am) Boy
Psychology. ■ •' , ‘
The faculty is composed of the fol
lowing: H. O. Hunter, Regional Scout
Executive;. Stanley A. Harris, Na
tional Field Executive; W. K. Weylan,
National Scout Headquarters; Judson
P. - Freeman, National Field Execu
tive, Chicago; -C. E. Carmack, Re
gional Scout Executive, Region 5; A.
A. Jame*<>n, Scout Executive, Atlanta
Council; - David J. Yates, American
Red Cross; F. Roger Miller, Scout
Commissioner, Macon Council; Peyton
Jacob, Local Director, Boy Psycholo
gy; Geo. M. Sparks, . Professor of
Journalism, Publicity Methods; Dr. C.
R. Fountain; Professor of Physics arid
Astronomy; Professor S. K. Tanner,
Nature Study; Dr. P. S. Flippin,
Civics; Dr. J. G. Harrisnn, Psychol
ogy. ’
SCHOOL OF COMMERCE
BE GIVEN AT NIGHT
Thirty Courses Offered and Full
Col lege Credit for Many.
Beginning this fall, night classes
for business men will be given for all
courses in the School . of Commerce.
In adtHtjon t*j regular courses in (he
School ofSCommerce, psychology of
advertising, mudfern language bourses
and Chamber ofSCommerce work and
bunking are to be given.'
These courses are given, in an ef
fort to. give the business men of the
community every opportunity for col
lege courses. A total of thirtv courses
arr offered and those desiring rurther
information are requested to g^
touch with )C)r. Weaver or Dean Bril
ley at once. - •; .. - .
Full college credit will be given for.
many of the courses offered at night.
FOOtBAU. CANDIDA!* BEGIN REGULAR PRACTICE MPT. 11th j
on pageeiffht)
TATTNALL SQUARE FROM MERCER’S BTORll
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